Gruelling search for missing 12-year-old Terry Floyd’s remains may be over in coming months

Images from 2012 of open-cut excavation of the abandoned mineshaft near Avoca, where Daryl Floyd believes his brother's body was dumped more than 40 years ago.

Mr Floyd said the money will be used to over the coming months to clean out the 40 metre drive.

“This time around with the funding from the state government it is steadfast,” he said.

“Will it ($50k) get us totally over the line? Probably not, but we are still fundraising.

“The hope is in two to three months we might have a conclusion.”

For Mr Floyd, who still lays awake at night thinking about what may have happened to his brother, the idea of finding Terry’s remains has him determined to pump all his resources into the upcoming search.

This year the search will be upped to a weekly basis.

“To know finally we can get answers I cannot wait,” he said.

“I don’t believe in closure, you won’t ever get closure.

“But to know you can find his remains and give him a proper burial and let him rest with his family … and to know charges can be laid on those responsible, is great.”

No one has been convicted over the disappearance of Terry, despite a coroner in 2001 determining he was abducted and murdered.

The boy disappeared from the corner of the Pyrenees and Sunraysia highways on June 28, 1975.